VIRGIN ROSE

Before she became a global star thanks to her interpretation of Marilyn Monroe in «Blonde,» an almost adolescent Ana de Armas made her film debut with this scorching and sensual tropical melodrama, directed by one of the top Spanish directors and a regular of international festivals, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón. Her co-star was another Cuban actor, Jorge Perugorría.

In Havana, Cuba, in the 1930s, a young man gets involved in rum smuggling during the height of Prohibition in the U.S. He works for a smarmy boss and a corrupt syndicate and witnesses deadly crimes. He meets and falls in love with a French prostitute. They dream of running off to Paris. Is fate on their side?

• Ana De Armas